Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Immaturity in American Politics
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Welcome home
Welcome Home by Lucia Berlin is a posthumous volume featuring an uncompleted memoir, letters, and sketches that offer a rare window into the nomadic and turbulent life of the celebrated short story writer.
Discussed“this book of Memoirs welcome home is some letters that she wrote It's also some sketches she wrote about the places she had lived”
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A manual for cleaning women
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin is a celebrated short story collection that showcases the author's remarkable talent for capturing the grit, humor, and dignity of everyday working-class lives.
Discussed“and it does sort of feel that way that manual for cleaning women was a very selected like okay if we can only have one version of this story this is the one we want to have”
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The Barefoot Woman
The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Jordan Stump, is a poignant memoir that preserves the memory of the author's mother and the daily lives of Rwandan women before the devastating genocide.
Discussed“I reviewed a book by Scholastic mukasa called the Barefoot woman”
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Cockroaches
Discussed“it's a companion to her first book cockroach which is more explicitly about the horror and what she was able to learn and her childhood”
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
Discussed“yeah cockroach and the Philip gorovich yeah the gorovich is a really great book and I reread it when I was when I was writing writing this book”
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Milkman
Milkman by Anna Burns is a formally inventive, stream-of-consciousness novel set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, following a young woman harassed by an older, powerful paramilitary figure known as the milkman.
Critiqued“so that implies there are some people I'm recommending it too which I have not done”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“if you look at the bestselling books of the year you're looking at Michael Wolf's fire and fury which sold I think two and a half million copies”
“if you look at the bestselling books of the year you're looking at Michael Wolf's fire and fury which sold I think two and a half million copies”
“I'm going to review Milkman again next week”